Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-10
II nl EeD.
THE FASTEST TRoTTeRS CONE
FROM THoRoUGHBREDS
Maud S, Jay-Eye-See, and PaIo Alto,
AlDcscendants Of Messenger and
Doomed, and OF Castanira.
The Bleed Of Iiomed, Trustee. and Hes.
mnga Comminglcd, Must Re BE-
lied Upon for The Coming Two
Minute follH.
REVENUE, COMBINING DiOnED & TRUSTEE,
An Important Facl0f 10 EAeei-
SiOr Breeding.
REVENUES PERFORMANCES
AND DESCENDANTS.
The Paternity Of Sir Archy; His
Birth and His Grave.
boston, THE PROGEsII0R OF MAUD S.,
Douby Descended from Diomed
Trough Sir Archy and FIonzel'
POLICY OF FREQUENT JlDlilOUS OUT
CROSSES UPON TTORGTGaBREDS.
The Paternity Of Sir Archy; His
Birth and His Grave.
boston, THE PROGEsIrOR OF MAUD S.,
Douby Descended from Diomed
Trough Sir Archy and FIOdzeI.
POLICY OF FREQUENT JTDlfI0US OUT
CROSSES UPON THOReUGaDREDS.
NopyoIK. VA. April Q. 1887.

NORFOLK, Va, April 9, 1887.
Colonel Saunders u. Bruce, Editor,
de-:
Dear Sir,-The No. Of the 7'oT,
Field ard Firm which bore date on
the 9Th day of July, 1867, contains the
announcement that Mr.. Alexander. of
Kentucky, had added to his stock OF
horses ut the Woodburn farm the re-
nowned four-mile running horse
Planet, and remarks that " in addition
TO this horses running qualities he is
possessed of good trotting action, and
is expected to cross well on the Wood
burn mares, making combustion
which will produce excellent trottcrs.
Mr.. Alexander was proverbial as a
successful breeder both OF running and
trotting horses. In theory and prac-
tice, in scheme and result, he was the
most successful breeder of his day in
this or any country. He was strenu-
Gus advocate end fine exempiilier of
the policy of improving troiters by
thoroughbred crossing; and be pro-
cured, PATTY with view to raising
trotters, the most celebrated four-mile
winner of that horses racing period
because of his aptitude as trotter,
Planet being well known as capable of
trotting q mile in three minutes, with
out training or practice in that gait.
IMFohrAScE OF OCCASIONAL OUT
CROSSES.
Mr.. Alexander, in this addition to his
stock, aimed at more than the infusion
of thorough blood into the trotter.
That blood, as derived from old Mes
senger, had been 80 in-and-in bred upon
natural trotters that new cross had
become desirable. Planet was the
grandson of Boston, horse doubly
descended from Doomed. Planet was
also the grandson of Trustee through
his sire Revenue, which latter was him
self doubly descended on the maternal
side, through Sir Archy, from Diomed.
In the early breeding of trotters i'm
menseadvantage had been derived from
combining with the Messenger blood
that of Diomed through Duroc, in
crosses with horses of unknown descent
having the trotting gift. Planet afford
ed fresh out-cross with Diomed blood
and new out-cross with the blood of
Trustee.
Mr.. Alexander could not but have
been cognizant of the conspicuous sue
cess which had attended in Kentucky
then recent out crossing of the Messen-
ger upon other thoroughbred strains.
Mambrino Chief, who was Messenger,
accomplished but moderate things in
the region adjacent TO New York, where
he was bred and first stood bnt when
taken TO Kentucky and brought into
union with the blood of the Bertrands,
Wagner, Gray Eagle, and other de-
scendants of Diomed, and of the i'm
ported horses. Citizen, Leviathan.
Yorkshire, and Glencoe, he immedi-
ately began to achieve celebrity. This
success was not impaired by inbred
ing, through Bertrand and Gallatin,
her grandsons, with imported Nam
brina, sister of Messenger, who was
brought into South Carolina about the
time that Messenger himself was i'm
ported into New York.
TEE xoTTo Il BREEDING SHOULD BE
EXCELSIOR.
Where scrub-trotting blood is inter
mixed with thoroughbreds of one or two
firsins only, and is bred in-and-in upon
such stratus with little or no out-cross-
ing, improved speed may be got up to
certain point but If no new thor
oueh-blood is brought in, the utmost
degree of speed thus ttainable is soon
reached and further progression ceases.
IL cur aim be TO do always better and
still better-if our motto be excelsior
we must resort TO out-crosses upon new
thoroughbred strains, and we will then
surely find success; if not In the first
generation, at least in the second and
subsequent ones. have no faith in
the qualities of any horse except in the
proportion which he has of thorough
blood in his veins. There can be no
cure and successful breeding OF the
horse for any purpose requiring speed
and stamina, without copious infusion
OF the blood Of the East as improved In
the stables Of England and the United
States. / believe, further, that the time
is near at hand when the rapidly-im-
proving American trotter will perform
the mile in two minutes. and that this
contamination will be attained bya CON-
bination OF the physical mechanism oil
the Hambletonians with the sinew, bone,
lungs. and blood of the thoroughbred
horse descended from the mingled
strains OF Messenger, Diomed, Trustee,
and one or more other great heads oil
thoroughbred families more recently
imported.
This fusion was long carried on
By breeding horses and mares with,
out pedigrees, but having the trottinp
gift and mechanism upon the descend
ants Of imported Messenger, mixed
In more orlessdegreewith those Of Du'
roc, and OF the imported Barbary
horse, Grand Bashaw; and also with
those Of imported Bellfounder. who was
partially scrub.
HAxBLEToKIAx A PRODIGY OF IRE STUD.
A marvellous result Of crossing Mes
senger blood on animals having this
trotting mechanism and proclivity WAS
reached In the instance OF Rysdyk's
Hambletoniao, a horse which, though
IN form caricature was prodigy In
power to procreate trotfers. This mar
yellous horse Is conclusive demon
strntion CT the advantage 81 combining
the trotting anatomy and propensity
found IN horsesof unknown blood with
thoroughbred strains. He Is monu-
uent to the successof that policy aud
there are very few trotters Of fast re-
cords ia our day who do not trace Ia
one pr more lines 70 this matchless pro-
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